In honor of Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday this Friday (May 31), I originally wanted to write 200 different ways to remember and celebrate him. After staring my list, I thought… Read more »

In the beautiful American city of Brooklyn, near the Navy Yards and the future location of what will be the five boroughs’ first Wegman’s (we await you all breathless, o noblest grocery chain), between the crook… Read more »

Join me now as we journey through the mists of time to 1979. A long, hot summer is in full, ahem, swing. Caddyshack, the cult screwball golfing comedy, is being filmed. It’s… Read more »

If there’s one thing the internet has made possible, it’s stupid people telling stupid things to other stupid people, so that they can in turn tell those things to still more stupid… Read more »

It is fall. The kids have gone back to school. MobyLives is back from hiatus. And some of the biggest authors in the world have books coming out — and… Read more »

Ahh yes. The fresh-cut grass. The crack of the bat. The roar of the crowd. These can only signal one thing: National Poetry Month is upon us. And in a happy coincidence,… Read more »

We know the great Walt Whitman as a poet, diarist, Brooklyn-liver and amateur bare-knuckle boxer. But we don’t always think of him as having been a novelist. Indeed, he didn’t… Read more »

For those who don’t remember, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman was a CBS drama series that aired throughout the mid-nineties, focusing on the life and exploits of a young Boston physician who… Read more »

O Donald! My Donald! the nomination’s won; Now you’ve insulted all of us, and it’s no longer fun; Those tiny hands, that face spray-tanned, the world in mortal terror, At the… Read more »

In what is being touted as the most exciting Walt Whitman discovery in decades, an eagle-eyed grad student has unearthed a series of articles that add up to a cohesive… Read more »